Re: SBS Setup Error

Installing over the top of an existing installation, may or may not resolve a poorly installed setup.
Hopefully Merv's research will prove helpful, but I think you're probably going to wind up with ongoing issues.

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"Chad" <Chad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:50718B3D-BD4B-4CBF-96FC-C1FAF54FFDDF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is a reinstall. I took over this server from a diffrent IT person. They
had no SBS experiance and really screwed up IIS and Exchange. I do not want
to format the HD becuase some of the data will take a long time to restore.
I have reinstalled the SBS server over the top of the old version. (Using the
same directory to delete the old server). I am able to adminster the server,
however it is acting more like a windows server with exchange and IIS then an
SBS server. I really need to try and resolve this without formating the HD.
I have already recreated the domain and reconnected all the user workstaions
to the new domain. It is R2, but I do not know how old the CD's are.

Thanks
Chad

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Obviously this is a new install and not delivered
Flatten the box and do it again.

One assumes this is SBS R2 sinces its new. And this is all new equipement
and a new set of CDs?

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"Chad" <Chad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E40D2E93-2970-4C84-AA79-B05549A5D7D7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I recived the following errors when I went to finish the SBS install.
>
> An error occurred while creating user accounts. Open Active Directory
> Users
> and Computers, and manually create a test user to verify that Active
> Directory is running. Rerun Setup.
>
>
> An error occurred while copying files for the Server Tools component. > See
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Integration\Windows Small Business Server
> 2003\Logs\SBSMSI-remote.LOG for the list of files that were not copied.
> You
> may want to run Setup again and reinstall the component.
>
> I ran the script below as found on MS KB.
>
> csvde -i -f %windir%\system32\mui\dispspec\dcpromo.csv -c
> DOMAINPLACEHOLDER
> domain DN -j %windir%\debug -k
>
> The result was 0 entries updated.
>
> I am assuming that this is my problem but how do I resolve this issue?
>
> I am really in a tight spot here, so any info will help.
>
> Thanks,
> Chad


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